With all that is good about Democracy, it still traps significant % of the citizens in poverty. Not all can handle freedom. There are those who are not competive in the market place - and they are left behind.

Over 50% of the world population lives in poverty - and even in US, 20% of the children go to bed hungry.

To have a comprehensive program to deal with poverty in Democracy, we need better government programs - to feed the hungry, to educate them with job skills, getting them a government sponsored job, and supplying them with a place to live.

Some of the Europian countries already have better programs than US. These are the success stories of Democracy we should follow.

Pushing for Democracy without these programs in place, is not enough for places like Africa. The good thing about Democracy is that people are in power, and the leader has to please the people. That alone will not feed the hungry - good government programs will - so we need Democracy with good comprehensive programs to deal with the poverty issue.

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